b'145976977 979An interesting range of legal documents including two relatedVICTORIAN GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS: with 1860-to the sale of the good schooner Empire in Honolulu and61 Progress Report from the Select Committee upon The San Francisco (1837 and 1851); several Victorian IndenturesLunatic Asylum printed by John Ferres (Melbourne), 73pp including one for the lease of a book stall at Ballarat Westplus appendices, Australian Species of Acacia (1887) and Railway Station (1884) and several Statutory DeclarationsAustralian Salsolaceous Plants (1890) both by Government under the Licensing Act for the sale of alcohol at MelbourneBotanist Ferdinand Von Mueller both printed by Ferres; Hotels (Niagara Hotel, Royal George Hotel, Royal Mint Hotel,also an 1852 document confirming appointment of William Royal Mail Hotel, Racing Club Hotel, etc.) circa 1909-10.Swainson as Government Botanist, and a German publication (18 documents). Die Diamantfuhrenden gesteine sudafrikas (The Diamond $300500Bearing Rocks of South Africa, Berlin 1909); some items with detached or missing covers, all are softbound. (5 items)978 $160200 FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS: Group of mostly bank cheques with TASMANIA 1846 drawn on Commercial Bank980(Hobart Town), 1886-1918 group drawn on the National1854 VICTORIAN LAND GRANT DURING THE GOLD Bank of Tasmania at Circular Head or Stanley includingRUSH: July 1854 land grant by purchase to Allan McDougall 1915 for Marrawah and Montague Cheese Factories; 1889and Theodore Clodins, signed and sealed by SIR CHARLES Commercial Bank of Tasmania for Irvine & McEarchern (WineHOTHAM, whilst serving as 2nd Lieutenant-Governor of & Spirit Merchants) with embossed 3d Platypus StampVictoria, (Appointed 1st Governor of Victoria in May 1855), for Duty; VICTORIA 1886-91 group drawn on Colonial Bank ofa parcel of land measuring two acres, three roods and eight Australia (Birregurra), 1886 drawn on Union Bank of Australiaperches in the County of Talbot, in the Parish of Castlemaine (Ballarat); also a few Commonwealth Savings Bank envelopes.on Barkers Creek; window mounted, framed and glazed, (30 items) 44 x 55cm.$150250Gold was discovered near present-day Castlemaine (Mt Alexander Goldfields) in July 1851 at Specimen Gully on Barkers Creek. The gold was discovered by Christopher Thomas Peters, a shepherd and hut-keeper on Barkers Creek.$250350 '